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Scientist Can Now Listen in on the Music in Your Head

Wednesday, 16 August 2023, 17:45 Dr. Tar Uncategorized 16

Scientific American

A new study analyzed data from 29 people who were already being monitored for epileptic seizures using postage-stamp-size arrays of electrodes that were placed directly on the surface of their brain. As the participants listened to Pink Floyd’s 1979 song “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1,” the electrodes captured the electrical activity of several brain regions attuned to musical elements such as tone, rhythm, harmony and lyrics. Employing machine learning, the researchers reconstructed garbled but distinctive audio of what the participants were hearing. The study results were published on Tuesday in PLOS Biology. More

16 Comments on Scientist Can Now Listen in on the Music in Your Head

  7. @TRF

    That makes me think of what would happen if you took Ayahuasca, LSD, psylocibin and mescaline at the same time while listening Frank Zappa, Mr. Bungle, Edgard Varace and Cephalic Carnage also at the same time. I like it. 👍

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  15. Doc, I still love listening to Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport 60 years later. I was 10 when I first heard it back in 1963. It’s a good earworm song even all these years later. And the only way to listen to Fear The Reaper is loud but maybe not at 3 AM with the stereo cranked up to warp factor 9. When I was delivering the morning newspaper back in the mid 60’s at 5 AM and earlier in the morning in, I used to take my transistor radio with me and would crank it up loud on the local Top 40 radio channel KJRB AM 790 and would tick off some of my customers by playing my radio too loud so early in the morning and waking them up.

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